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Herodotus

Herodotus was a Greek writer living in the 5th century BC. He is considered the “Father of History” for his detailed acc...

Classical Narrative Ancient Greek

9.2 Excellent

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Thucydides

Thucydides was a Greek historian renowned for his detailed account of the Peloponnesian War. His work provides unparalle...

Classical Political Ancient Greek

9.2 Excellent

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Tacitus

Tacitus was a prominent Roman historian living during the early Imperial period. He is notable for his critical and ofte...

Classical Political Ancient Roman

9.2 Excellent

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Ibn Khaldun

Ibn Khaldun was a 14th-century North African scholar and one of history’s earliest social scientists. His *Muqaddimah* o...

Medieval North African Islamic Sociological

9.2 Excellent

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Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville was a French diplomat and historian renowned for his insightful analysis of American democracy in...

French American 19TH Century Political

9.2 Excellent

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Leopold von Ranke

Leopold von Ranke was a prominent German 19th-century historian renowned for his rigorous approach to historical researc...

German 19TH Century Archival Political

9.2 Excellent

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Johan Huizinga

Johan Huizinga was a Dutch historian renowned for his anthropological approach to studying medieval culture. His seminal...

Cultural 20TH Century Medieval Dutch

9.2 Excellent

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Marc Bloch

Marc Bloch was a prominent French historian of the 20th century. He is best known for his foundational work in Annales S...

French Social 20TH Century Medieval

9.2 Excellent

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James McPherson

James McPherson is a prominent American historian specializing in the 20th and 21st centuries. He’s particularly renowne...

Military American 20TH Century Civil War

9.2 Excellent

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Eric Foner

Eric Foner is a leading American historian specializing in the Reconstruction era and the history of slavery. His work s...

American 20TH Century Political Reconstruction

9.2 Excellent

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Robert Caro

Robert Caro is a prominent American historian specializing in twentieth-century political biographies. His meticulous re...

American 20TH Century Power Political

9.2 Excellent

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Plutarch

Plutarch was a Greek biographer and philosopher writing during the Roman Empire. His *Parallel Lives* meticulously compa...

Classical Ancient Biographical Greek

9.1 Excellent

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Henri Pirenne

Henri Pirenne was a Belgian historian whose work examined medieval economic, urban, and social history. His best-known a...

20TH Century Medieval Urban Belgian

9.1 Excellent

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Bede

Bede, commonly called the Venerable Bede, was an English monk, scholar, and historian who lived at the monasteries of We...

Medieval Early Medieval British Religious

9.0 Excellent

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Tony Judt

Tony Judt was a British-American historian whose research and writing addressed modern European political and intellectu...

European 20TH Century Political British American

9.0 Excellent

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Henry Adams

Henry Adams (1838-1918) was an American historian, writer, and political thinker from a prominent Massachusetts family....

American 19TH Century Cultural Medieval

8.5 Great

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Xenophon

Xenophon was an ancient Greek soldier, historian, and writer who was associated with Socrates. His Anabasis recounts the...

Military Classical Narrative Ancient

8.3 Great

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Anna Komnene

Anna Komnene (1083-c. 1153) was a Byzantine princess, writer, and historian, and the daughter of Emperor Alexios I Komne...

Narrative Medieval Byzantine Political

8.2 Great

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Dio Cassius

Dio Cassius, also known as Cassius Dio, was a Greek-speaking Roman senator and historian who lived during the late secon...

Classical Political Ancient Roman

8.1 Great

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Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson is an American classicist, military historian, and author whose work examines warfare, agriculture,...

Military Classical American Contemporary

7.5 Good